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by reyostallenberg 971 days ago
Admin for Symfony Framework ( PHP )

https://symfony.com/bundles/EasyAdminBundle/current/index.ht...

Admin for Laravel (PHP) https://nova.laravel.com/

Java Spring Boot https://docs.spring-boot-admin.com/current/getting-started.h...

I think many other Frameworks have this, did you search for it?

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The Spring one linked above is not really comparable to Django admin in my opinion. In particular it doesn’t integrate with your data model at all - it essentially just shows actuator endpoints.
Right, it describes itself as "Spring Boot Admin is a monitoring tool".
Phoenix has Kaffy: https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy

Super-simple to set up and it's been perfectly adequate for my app's needs so far.

To answer OP's original question: Django Admin isn't a killer feature because the same kind of thing is available for most other Django-like frameworks, with the only difference being that it's usually a third party library rather than something built into the framework itself.

Being built into the framework is a big deal, though.

The problem with third-party libraries for this kind of thing is that there's no guarantee that they will be maintained in lockstep with the underlying framework.

What if they get abandoned? Or a new version of the framework comes out with new features but the third-party library takes months to add support for them?

I think this may be an aspect of Django that isn't appreciated nearly as much as it should be: batteries included means that the feature you depend on are guaranteed to be maintained and documented at the same pace as the rest of the framework.

> Admin for Laravel (PHP) https://nova.laravel.com/

This is a paid product whereas Django Admin is a part of Django.

Filament is better and free, for Laravel